Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (2430 N. Cannon Drive), which regularly puts on exhibits of artwork related to its up-with-nature mission, is hosting artist/naturalist James Prosek this month. Prosek is the author and illustrator of "Trout: An Illustrated History" (Knopf, 1996), a book of his vividly detailed watercolor paintings of trout of North America, published when he was just 19 years old. He has since written "Ocean Fishes" (Rizzoli, 2012), about Atlantic sea life.

At the Notebaert, he is visiting Friday and Saturday to introduce his new exhibit, "Beyond Eden," which, according to the museum, "explores issues of extinction and loss...

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